That's noteworthy as it's the first case to go to trial accusing
a law school of intentionally using
inflated post-graduation employment figures and salaries in
order to defraud applicants.

The case centers on Anna Alaburda, a 37-year-old graduate of
TJSL. Her
lawsuit claims she has sent her resume to more than 150 law
firms, and only received one job offer, which "was less favorable
than non-law related jobs that were available to her."

Alaburda's case against TJSL started in 2011, when she filed a
proposed class action seeking to represent graduates who had
allegedly been duped by the law school.

The school has been accused of reporting post-graduation
employment figures that topped 90% in 2010 but neglecting to
disclose that the figures included part-time work, such as pool
cleaner and Victoria's Secret sales clerk,
the Associated Press reported in December, citing a separate
suit against TJSL and a lawyer for Alaburda.

Further, TJSL graduates have highest amounts of debt for law
schools, based on a 2014 ranking by the US News & World
Report, with an average of about $172,000,
Above the Law reports. The top three schools on the list are:

TJSL was founded as the Western State University College of Law,
a for-profit law school owned by Education Management Corporation
(EDMC). TJSL became independent in 1995, and the school became a
private,
nonprofit law school accredited by the ABA in
2001.

Graduates of law schools filed more than a dozen proposed
class-action lawsuits in 2011 and 2012 alone,
according to The Wall Street Journal. These suits claimed the
schools defrauded graduates into thinking employment prospects
were rosier than they really were.

But judges have thrown out most of these suits, disagreeing with
the premise that law students were defrauded.

In October, a Florida judge threw out a suit against Florida
Coastal School of Law, saying that applicants to the school are
"a sophisticated subset of education consumers, capable of
sifting through data and weighing alternatives," The Journal
reported.

However, in ruling the case must proceed, Judge Joel Pressman
seemed to accept the argument that TJSL may have misled
prospective students by allegedly including non-law jobs in its
employment statistics.

"A reasonable consumer would not believe employment figures
included any and all employment, which would render the figure
meaningless in the context of a legal education," the judge wrote
in his opinion, according to
Above the Law. "A reasonable consumer expects the employment
figure to include graduates who work in law-related jobs."